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Douglass North

"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."

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Donna Grant

"School...school... is just nothing... if you think that you are going to learn something. You are here wrong, you wanna see the system?It's in about23 Channels as a start then increases... decreases... even with different topics in the end... they want you to recall the whole data from the 23 Channels as for Perfect, as For under Perfect Okay..okay... but still not perfect, as for Good... Just an Okay... and as for Middle... Little from there and little from there as for the last... Nothing at all."

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Donna Grant

"My school is attended by near three hundred scholars."

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Donna Grant

"I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school."

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Donna Grant

"Sunday school don't make you cool forever."

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Donna Grant

"While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent."

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Donna Grant

"Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

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Donna Grant

"Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A."

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Donna Grant

"It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal."

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Donna Grant

"He nodded toward the sub. "This is going to be a blow-off day."I dragged my mind away from magical intrigue. After being homeschooled for most of my life, some parts of the "normal" school world was a mystery. "What does that mean, exactly.""Usually teacher leave subs a lesson plan, telling them what to do. I saw Ms. Terwilliger left. It said, 'Distract them."

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Douglass North
"I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school."

School

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Douglass North
"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school."

Life

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Douglass North
"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."

Change

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Douglass North
"It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory."

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Douglass North
"I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research."

Life

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Douglass North
"Our family life was certainly not intellectual."

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Douglass North
"I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley."

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Douglass North
"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."

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Douglass North
"My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best."

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Douglass North
"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco."

Life

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